We are Losing Reward Challenges

In recent seasons, it seems that the reward challenges that we were so used to for quite a long time have gone away. They just aren’t around anymore doing much of anything. What’s up with that? Why are there no more reward challenges?

Here’s the rub: there are reward challenges still. We just don’t see them as they are constantly being edited out. There was only one reward challenge edited out for a long time. It was sadly the very first one that ever happened. Another one was also taken out of the first season, but included in the special that comes with the DVD of the season or on VHS on its own.

But it happened in more recent seasons that rewards in both the tribal stage and possibly some in the individual stage are on the cutting room floor, not effecting the season at all apparently. Why do they even have them if they are just going to be taken out time and time again?

Honestly, the problem, at least in the last three seasons, was all of the tasks or whatever that was going on that took away too much time from other aspects of the game. This is why we don’t see the rewards. The game is focused on whatever other gimmicks they want to that I complained about in the post that I did here last week. We don’t need the gimmicks.

If we don’t need to see rewards, should they still happen at all? What’s the point of having something that is constantly never shown? It doesn’t make much sense to me. While I’d still like to see reward challenges, if they are going to have them but not show them, then I’d rather it just not be part of the game at all in the end. It makes more sense to do it that way. 

I won’t know for sure what the next season of Survivor will be like. I’m hoping for more of a back to the basics season. They can keep the hidden immunity idol (because they’d do that anyways) and ditch a lot of the new gimmicks like other advantages. But what we do need for sure is the good reward challenges that we are used to in the past. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.